Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:01 am on October 3, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

Barack Obama went back to work this week, by which I of course mean he continued talking with hard-hitting media outlets like, er, Glamour. What topics did Obama want to discuss — the economy, foreign policy, or the federal deficit? Of course not! Mark Knoller tweeted out the highlight of the interview:

In interview with Glamour Magazine, out today, Pres Obama says to most Americans, “access to contraception should be a no-brainer.”

“No brainer?” Well … yeah. That’s exactly what the Center for Disease Control found in its long-range study of sexually active women and unplanned pregnancy. The 2009 study showed that 99% of sexually active women who wanted to avoid pregnancy thought access to contraception a no-brainer, too. In fact, the 20-year study never even suggests that access was a barrier to avoiding pregnancy; it doesn’t make the list of reasons for the unplanned pregnancies that occurred with respondents to their survey.

On the other hand, assuming that women can’t find birth control without their employer or school subsidizing and facilitating access, and forcing them to do so? That’s treating women as “no brainers.” It infantilizes women and puts employers, educators, and the government in the bedroom — where activists claim they don’t want those kind of intrusions.

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Like many other colloquial terms used in conversational english, I don’t think Obama has a clue what the term means. Remember, this is the guy that told the Congressional House leader ‘Don’t call my bluff, Eric’.

It infantilizes women and puts employers, educators, and the government in the bedroom — where activists claim they don’t want those kind of intrusions.

Yes but this is a cheap freebie for the Dems to curry favor with women.

More broadly, you should realize that our electorate is not offended by patronizing, privacy invasions, racial insults and slights, despotic demands and even the occasional requirement to override religious beliefs if a freebie or other government relief of a problem is offered.

Special shout out to the pro life religious who are going to vote Democratic.

That’s just how Democrats want their women. “No Brainers”
The abuse they have heaped on women is staggering. All in the name of “helping” them.
My wife cannot fathom why women would support a person who thinks so little of their capabilities. She actually refers to liberals as sexist pigs.

In interview with Glamour Magazine, out today, Pres Obama says to most Americans, “access to contraception should be a no-brainer.”

I really would like to meet one of these women, like Julia, whose whole life revolves around her “lady parts.”

Seriously, you’d think that some of these women are just as concerned about the world they are bringing their kids up in as they are in getting free contraception. But that’s just me. I have yet to figure out why the hell Obama has any support going into this election. It is as if these idiots are happy that their rapist is giving them contraception on the way out the door.

[BTW, why is Planned Parenthood, a private organization, dependent on our federal tax dollars to exist? Can any private organization get the same sort of federal support, unquestioned, without audit? Didn’t think so.

Just saw two Obama ads here in Ohio last night, stating that without Planned Parenthood, women would be denied access to mammograms and would all die of cervical cancer.]

And there are liberal women here in Ohio who will dutifully nod their heads and vote for Obama merely because of this tripe.

Real women, smart women, got all this stuff already taken care of, without PP, without depending on government…it is called taking charge of your own damn life. Women I know seem to do well by that sort of thing.

I am looking forward to Obama’s coming interview with Mad magazine, wherein he can clarify his vision on both foreign policy and his domestic priorities. The cover picture of the Alfred E. Obama composite will also be delightful.

Romney can win the election tonight by declaring that the government will put birth control kiosk in every major mall,grocery store,post office,hospital,and of course phone store.His team can whip up some numbers on how many jobs this will create and show his business sense by making deals with the manufacturers on buying bulk.Since the taxpayers are paying this should end the talk of the war on women that seems to be all the rage these days.

Yet Barky and the media is controlling the message well. Barky still, inexplicably, leads amongst women. Dumb women undoubtedly. Although I did hear one woman say that Romney was going to ban abortion (heh, wishful thinking for some of us).